Looking to escape the rain this January? The ACAM (Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies) program warmly invites you to its first Creative Showcase event featuring ACAM students and alumni. Join us for an afternoon of readings and performances, good company, and general all around good times!
Event details:
When: January 29, 2016, 12-1pm
Where: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Lillooet Room (301)
Registration: RSVP now to save your seat, as there is limited capacity
Featuring:
Yulanda Lui
Yulanda is a queer Chinese Canadian settler born on Anishnabe territory, and dreams through her writing and her organizing. She is in her third year of the Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice program with a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migration studies. A Virgo Libra cusp, Yulanda is a fierce believer in collectivity and possibility and can be found learning and playing in spaces of magic, community, and utopia.
MARY CHEN
Mary Chen (she/her/hers) is a 3rd year Creative Writing student who has grown up in the cradle of unceded Coast Salish land. She is part of the Editorial Board for The Talon, UBC’s alternative press, and The Garden Statuary, UBC’s undergraduate literary journal. She spends most of her time outside of class reading comic books and chasing after her rascal dog.
AMANDA WAN
Amanda Wan is a third year majoring in honours literature with a minor in ACAM. She likes to daydream through reading, writing, and taking pictures.
MICHAEL NGUYEN
Michael is in his last (4th) year of History and minor in ACAM. With these two he is currently working on pursuing oral history as a way of reinterpreting past histories, especially of the Vietnamese diaspora. Even though he lives between the two worlds of Vietnamese traditions and Canadian society, on the side he enjoys folk and country music and hopes to bring in some good tunes of the two in the showcase for all to enjoy!
JANE SHI (with photography by Eric Tsui)
Jane Shi is an editor at The Garden Statuary and The Talon UBC. She currently lives on Kingsway, a thoroughfare occupying an Indigenous trail of the unceded, traditional, and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her family and ancestors are from Zhoushan and Pujiang; she was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu province and came to live in Richmond, BC a year before she began writing. Poetry will always be both weapon and shelter for her, a matter of survival.
Eric Tsui is a photographer who majors in English Literature and minors in Asian Area studies. His photographs can be found at flickr.com/ricesuit.
CAROLYN NAKAGAWA
Carolyn is a 2015 ACAM grad currently working at the Nikkei National Museum in Burnaby. She is a poet and playwright, with poems published in the Alliterasian: 20 Years of Ricepaper magazine anthology, The Puritan, and forthcoming in Room magazine. A staged reading of her full-length play The Girl with No Face is being presented by Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre on February 21.
*Accessibility info:
From East Mall, enter the Learning Centre through the main doors. Lillooet Room is on level 3 in The Chapman Learning Commons.
There are two good sized elevators on the lobby level (east mall entrance) that access all levels of the Learning Centre.
*Lunch (meat and vegetarian options) will be provided for those who RSVP. Please let us know if you have any special dietary needs.
If you have any questions, please email acam.events@ubc.ca
We hope to see you there!
This event will be taking place on the traditional, unceded, ancestral homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nation.
